"Mozilla today announced Boot to Gecko , a very ambitious project that aims to create a 'complete, standalone operating system for the open web'. This project's goal is to develop what seems like a ChromeOS-like operating system where all the apps are based on HTML5."

-Ergo, B2G is THE reference platform of the future. This is not only a question of open-source zealotism. There is far more sense and strategy into it.

The reference platform of the future? You mean the reference platform of the future that no one uses because its not installed by any device manufacturers, but is still the lowest common denominator of all smart phones, or would be except for the differences between the mozilla and webkit rendering engines?

What are you going to do of your Galaxy S or iPhone4 in two year's time, when it won't have been updated for a long time? Ditch it?

B2G sounds like a good alternative ROM to install, far less complicated than maintaining a custom Android AOSP build (if Google does not cut access to the code source, anyway). Well, except for the iPhone4 whose non-removable battery will be fried by then.

What are my non techy friends going to do? Trade it in? Give it to a younger sibling? Almost anything other than install a different ROM on it. Even if they did, that wouldn't make that ROM a reference platform.

Also, not sure why a Mozilla based ROM ( which no no has seen) would be less complicated than an Android one. But using one would require the user to ditch all of their previous apps.